The Link Between Sins and Earthquakes
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Question:
We begin with the Honorable Shaykh and ask his permission to pose questions, starting with the questions we have received regarding this directive statement about this earthquake and those tremors. The questioner says: Many people see that linking sins to the earthquakes occurring in the region of al-Madinah is incorrect, on the evidence that there are regions further from Allah and more sinful.
Answer:
This is an ignorant person, may Allah protect us from that; this is an ignorant person or one who is obstinate. You have heard that Allah lures the people of misguidance and the people of disbelief, showering them with blessings, then taking them by surprise,[Al-An'am 6:44], [Al-A'raf 7:182-183]. The fact that nothing happens to them is a luring of them, may Allah protect us from that. If something were to happen to them, it would be in their interest. The fact that nothing happens to them is to their detriment, so that they may transgress and be arrogant, and so that such words as the questioner said are hidden from them, and there is no power or might except in Allah. Also, it is not correct that nothing happens to them. You hear of the disasters now occurring in the lands of the disbelievers; disasters, earthquakes, wars, fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), evils, and displacement from their lands occur to them. Do you hear this? It happens to them, but they do not benefit from such matters nor take a lesson from them. Yes.
We begin with the Honorable Shaykh and ask his permission to pose questions, starting with the questions we have received regarding this directive statement about this earthquake and those tremors. The questioner says: Many people see that linking sins to the earthquakes occurring in the region of al-Madinah is incorrect, on the evidence that there are regions further from Allah and more sinful.
Answer:
This is an ignorant person, may Allah protect us from that; this is an ignorant person or one who is obstinate. You have heard that Allah lures the people of misguidance and the people of disbelief, showering them with blessings, then taking them by surprise,
So when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened to them the doors of every [good] thing
فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍWe will progressively lead them [to destruction] from where they do not know. (183) And I will give them time. Indeed, my plan is firm.
سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ
Source
أخصر المختصرات في الفقه الحنبلي [31] — alfawzan.live (21:08)
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